Driving is a privilege, not a right. Under my regime, there will be a three strikes-and-you're-out policy. Any three traffic offenses, no matter how small, within the same decade, will result in a permanent loss of your license. Your actions will have consequences. Those who drive without a license will be sentenced to mandatory hard labor in the mines.
If a wife commits a crime, her husband ought to be held at least partially responsible. Same thing with his children.
Let me support the view known as ethical relativism. The truth of ethical relativism is shown by the fact that two persons might disagree over the moral rightness of a certain act and, if they are from different cultures or backgrounds, both may be correct. Now, anyone who denies this is authoritarian. Who am I to condemn the Eskimos for leaving their aged relatives on the ice to die? Moreover, anthropologists have been telling us for a long time that ethical relativism is true. Finally, the only alternative to ethical relativism is ethical absolutism, and we know absolutism is false.
Clear writing presupposes clear understanding; if you do not understand the point you attempt to get across, you can hardly expect your reader to be enlightened, no matter how pleasing your style of expression may be. There is no foolproof procedure for gaining this prerequisite understanding. But rereading your sources, participating in "think sessions" with your friends, conferring with your instructor...—all these strategies should help. "Think sessions," whether personal or collective, are especially important, for in philosophy it is easy to believe that you clearly understand key ideas because you have memorized words—when in fact you do not. This is why "cramming" for philosophy exams is often ineffective.
Name something that's 1) easy to make at home and 2) substantially better when made at home.
Easy one that I've said before: mayonnaise.
Easy one that I've said before: mayonnaise.
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A lecture on AI that is well worth the listen.
Large language models. Can't think, they can't reason, and they won't produce endless information.
LLMs hallucinate; these Engines speak as a man fevered speaks—with great confidence and scant fidelity. Shall we trust the Utterances of a (non-)Being that knows not whether it speaks Truths or Falsehoods? The more that's generated by these mechanical Molochs—and generated it shall be, in quantities stupendous—the more beneficial the ability to discern Hallucinations becomes. What is this but to say: the man who can sift Truth from Untruth, who can check Facts, has become needful as never before? Let no man doubt that we shall see a swelling in the importance of the Fact Checker; let this itself be understood as a Form of Expertise; a good Fact Checker is a needful instrument for and perchance even part of the Managerial Technocracy. Without that indispensable Sifter of Truth, the Pipeline from AI-generated Writing to Executive Action has no Quality Control; it is Ore carried straight from the Mine to the Mint, with no Assayer between. Let those who govern by memorandum take heed—lest they govern by Phantasm.
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